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People can train themselves to notice soft fascination anywhere, not only in natural settings.Their words
But I have a hunch (or possibly just a hope) that we can learn to notice our own soft fascinations anywhere.
21 August
12 July
From one piece A self-absorbed giant 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.Their words
To come to my key point: this self-concentration limits China’s ideological influence in the rest of the world and its soft power.
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China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.Their words
Paradoxically, China might have had more soft power when it followed self-destructive policies of Maoist Cultural Revolution.
4 June
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So, what you need is that basically demand to be bounded, like a hard bound, not even like a soft sort of like diminishing sensitivity. You need for them to eventually say, "I've had enough. I don't want to spend any more money." And for that money to not enter as investment.
12 February
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Long lead times and soft costs, fueled by the world-leading US wages for "white collar" work, are the root cause of poor performance in low-volume production because there are few units to spread the soft costs over.
10 December 2025
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In form and tone it resembles a business class airport book—and this comparison is insulting to the airport paperbacks.
9 December 2025
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NARS soft matte concealerTheir words
NARS soft matte concealer. This is the BEST concealer. I've used this for many years and I will never quit it. There is no comparable one for acne.
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Olaplex conditionerTheir words
Olaplex conditioner. I have the shampoo too but I'm pretty sure the conditioner is what makes my hair bizarrely soft.
22 June 2024
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New York's subway cost premium is overstaffing, oversized stations and procurement, not high wages.Their words
Well, we’ve divided the New York cost premium into three tranches: labor (mostly overstaffing, not high wages), station and system design, and procurement and soft costs.
1 April 2024
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Shame is used as a tool of cultural coercion because it reliably makes people shrink and stop taking action.Their words
shame has been sharpened into a tool for cultural coercion and compliance. That what people have figured out is that shame is a is a soft spot on almost everybody. And if you press that spot, people will shrink. They will run away. It is particularly used against women, but it is used against large numbers of people to cause them to not take an action.
1 September 2023
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So I think the future of design is in that soft control, is in the ability to design highly controlled systems that enable the loss of control.
12 January 2023
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Our best explanation is that the UK adopted what we call the globalized system of procurement, privatizing planning functions to consultants and privatizing risk to contractors, which creates more conflict; the UK also has an unusually high soft cost factor.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
10 December 2022
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Guns, Germs, and SteelTheir words
I have a soft spot for extremely broad histories like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World.
20 January 2021
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But constraints in software tend to be soft constraints.
16 June 2020
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TWONE JournalTheir words
TWONE Journal Simple Muji-like brown soft cover travel notebook.
17 January 2020
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Rather than hard, difficult country being the breeding ground for the state, it is in fact the richest, softest areas that were (for those who have been to Mesopotamia and are wondering why it doesn’t seem quite so rich and soft anymore, the word you want to look up is salinization).
13 April 2017
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The Soft EdgeTheir words
Rich Karlgaard, The Soft Edge
25 November 2016
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The Unix Programming EnvironmentTheir words
The Unix Programming Environment is a book you can't read too soon. It's something I wish I'd come across years before I actually did. An authoritative and comprehensive manual for using Unix as a programmer, it clearly explains concepts such as inodes, hard and soft links, system calls, and the power of joining programs together via stdin and stdout. By the time I came across this book I already knew these concepts, but had never studied them before in one place, and in such a coherent manner.
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